PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your sisters, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone. PLS. PASS THIS ON EVEN IF YOU'VE READ IT BEFORE.IT'S A REMINDER. PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.

This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage.

If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone.

MeganC ~ It has (in order of use) two rounds of #9 birdshot, two rounds of 00 buckshot, and one magnum slug. I figure if I get down to using the fifth round then someone has it coming to them.

MarDav ~ Ive got 00 buckshot all up and down in mine. I figure if someones entered my locked house at night, then someone has it coming to them.

It's called a Dutch load. Mine's #6 goose, 00 buck, rifled slugs.

The idea is that the first few shots have many pellets to maximize the odds of connecting, and as your opponent returns fire and seeks concealment, you go to larger pellets to punch through, and if he makes it to cover, the slugs are more apt to achieve penetration even there.

It supposedly enhances your chances.

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posted on 01/08/2013 10:59:55 AM PST
by null and void
(The world is full of Maple Streets.)

Great. Now you have to remember what’s where in the tube, how many rounds you’ve fired, the varying effects of each, and how long it’s gonna take you to reach the “has it coming” round when you realize this $#!^ IS real and you want that round FIRST.

Man, I envy those with Dobes that can “run the perimeter”. Mine would jauntily run off down the street exploring.

He is excellent in the house when I set him to “look”, but he’s never been allowed off leash outdoors due to his reluctance to obey a recall command. He’s a rescue that was kept in a cellar the first year of his life, tormented by the family children periodically.

We’ve had him years now, but I know I could not trust him to be off leash. Our Palli, now she was a different story. I remember once she was in the yard with me and she saw my sons legs sticking out of his car (working on something) she went into that catlike crouch, all tension and focus, and went to check him out. It’s beautiful to see them work like that.

Of course when she realized it was her boy she turned into a bouncing puppy in a split second. Sure do miss her.

yeah, that’s the best, but having your keys and your cell phone and your wallet right by you are good for 1)pushing the alert button on the key fob; 2)calling 911 as they try to break in; 3)have your stuff easily at hand if you have to bolt out the other doors or windows in your home if there are just too darn many of the bad guys to hold ‘em off and keep yourself, your spouse, your kids safe.

Also, having dogs that bark and won’t back down from strangers until they are commanded is good.

My grandmother didn’t have all this stuff—she just slept with a small black iron skillet under her bed. She said she could maybe wallop someone and give ‘em a big goose egg on their head! :)

Mine died in my arms a year ago. Miss that girl so much. We rescued her at 1 year. She was my 3rd Dobe and my wife’s very first dog. Those two were like BFF. No better dog than a Dobie for your personal and family protection. They were bred for just that purpose. Smart as a whip and athletic to the max. She was with us for 11 years. What a blessing.

“Great. Now you have to remember whats where in the tube, how many rounds youve fired, the varying effects of each, and how long its gonna take you to reach the has it coming round when you realize this $#!^ IS real and you want that round FIRST.”

I’ve practiced shooting with this load out a few hundred times (at least) and I am very comfortable with it. Now if I get REALLY PO’d at someone then I’m going to reload with 12ga marine flares (which are short magnesium coated aluminum slugs) and have myself a BBQ.

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posted on 01/08/2013 11:50:58 AM PST
by MeganC
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)

I expected it to be some kind of bug-out advice. I imagine there are still a few of us that don't have electronic keys or fobs. I'll continue to keep my keys in the chest-of-drawers and wonder why I had to waste my time responding to this. ;^)

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posted on 01/08/2013 12:00:29 PM PST
by higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

Yep - maybe the barking will get someone to not even try, but at least gives you a warning if you are home. Our neighborhood watch folks say if you hear a noise - get up and investigate safely. It probably is the only warning you will get. I learned that too late.

Years ago a prowler hit a bunch of cars right before Christmas on our quiet cul-de-sac. I had just got in bed and almost asleep when our dog let out a slight “woof” and that was it. I thought about getting up, diddn’t, listened for anymore noises and there weren’t any.

Got up the next morning and about eight cars (some unlocked and some older ones with no alarms) had been broken into. They must have come onto the drive to check our cars and that was the “woof”. Our new dog is a bit more aggressive with the barking towards strangers as they enter the yard.

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posted on 01/08/2013 2:52:56 PM PST
by 21twelve
(So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)

This is a *good* idea. I’d just as soon run somebody off before I’d have to choot ‘em.

To thackney, Feed ‘em. That way, you can kinda control where they go. We have a courtyard (where the dogs never go) & the backyard (the only critters that go back there are frogs, chipmunks, & squirrels- well, & the birds. *Rarely* have drama with the dogs). We’ve been doing this for years & discovered it by accident.

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